Kostanay is a city on the Tobol River in northern Kazakhstan and the administrative center of Kostanay Region. Russian settlers founded it in 1879 as Nikolaevsk, and it gained official city status in 1893, with a rail link built in 1912 to 1913 connecting it to Troitsk and Chelyabinsk. It was renamed Kustanay after the Bolshevik takeover in 1918 and took its current name in the years after Kazakhstan's post-Soviet independence. Its population was 277,757 in 2026, and the city holds 173 recognized monuments of historical and cultural significance.
Facts
Area (sq km) Founding Year Population Estimate Year Elevation (m) Elevation Band Climate Zone Sources
1. Kostanay (Wikidata)
P571 (inception)
+1879-00-00T00:00:00Z
P1082 (population)
population 258,990 (2021)
P625 (coordinate location)
latitude 53.21435, longitude 63.62463
P2044 (elevation above sea level)
elevation 156 m
P2046 (area)
area 240.0 sq km
P1082 (population), P585 (point in time)
population 258990 (2021)
View the Source2. GeoNames: Kostanay - GeoNames
GeoNamescities500 record 1519928
53.21435 63.62463 P PPLA KZ 13 1537246 210000 167 Asia/Qostanay
Place record, elevation
Elevation ca. 167 m
View the Source 3. Koeppen-Geiger map (Kottek et al., University of Veterinary Medicine Vienna): World Map of the Koeppen-Geiger Climate Classification, present climate data
Koeppen-Geiger map (Kottek et al., University of Veterinary Medicine Vienna)Koeppen-Geiger-ASCII.txt grid cell 53.25, 63.75Quote, Koeppen-Geiger-ASCII.txt grid cell 53.25, 63.75
53.25 63.75 Dfb
Kostanay (Wikipedia)
In Group: Cities of Central Asia (World), Wikipedia lead / Wikidata P17, confirms city and countryView the Source Reader Challenges (0)
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